To escape a terrible marriage, the princess asks the departing ambassador of a neighboring country to take her as his wife and take her with him.
- a short love fairy tale without pretensions to seriousness
- the development of tender romantic feelings
- trope: the hero rescues a young woman in trouble
- the hero: an intelligent man who is very bewildered by the role that’s fallen on him and isn’t exactly great at handling it
- the woman in trouble: a determined person who isn’t ready to give up